Cork-extractor.



No. 694,466. Patented Mar. 4, I902. G. C. FERGUSON.

CORK EXTRACTDB. [Application filed iuly 22, 19o1.| (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

GEORGE CANNON FEEGusON, OF EEEDEEIOTON, CANADA.

CORK-EXTRACTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 694,466, dated March 4, 1902. Application filed July 22, 1901. Serial No. 69,178. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE CANNON FER- GUSON, a subject of theKing of Great Britain, residing at Fredericton, county of York, Province of New Brunswick, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in- Cork-Extractors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in cork-extractors; and the object that I have in view is to provide a simpl and inexpensive contrivance which may be thrust into and embedded firmly in a cork with such expedition and ease as to secure the withdrawal of.

Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1 and on a greatly-magnified scale."

The same numerals of reference denote like parts in all the figures of the drawing.

5 designates the blade or bar, and 6 is the handle, in which one end of the blade or bar is firmly embedded and is secured by a transverse pin 7. The blade 5 is flattened laterally in contradistinction to a circular shank, such as is commonly employed in corkscrews, the flattened form of the blade being indicated more particularly by Figs. 2 and 3. The blade is tapered from its straight upper portion down to its lower extremity, andjthis extremity of the flattened blade is pointed and sharpened, so asto produce an entrancepoint 8, which may be easily and quickly thrust into a cork. The flattened blade is provided with a plurality of barbs or spurs 9 10, the same being disposed on opposite side edges of the blade and with the barbs 9 in alternate or staggered relation to the barbs 10, as clearly shown by Fig. 1. A peculiarity in the invention consists in making each barb or spur with a substantially abrupt shoulder 11 on its top side, said shoulder having a rounded juncture with the blade, and a substantially broad or fiat face, whereby the shoulder may have firm and secure engagement with the cork when it is em bedded therein. The spur or barb has an inclined long under face l2,which extends downwardly and inwardly, so as to merge in a rounded portion of the next barb, and said inclined long under face of the barb is beveled or inclined, as at 13, thus giving to the barb a sharpened under edge, by which it is made to easily penetrate the cork when the implement is thrust downward into the same. The lowermost barbs 9 10 have theirunder faces beveled transversely,and said edges converge so as to forinthe entrance-point 8.

In using myimproved implement the handle 6 is grasped firmly bythe hand and the entrance-point Sis placed over the middle of the cork which it is desired to extract. The implement is now forced bodily downward in a straight continuous direction or thrust as distinguished from a turning or screw-like movement, and during this thrust of the implement the entrance-point 8 and the sharpened and inclined under edges 12 of the barbs cut or cleave their way through the cork, thus allowing the ready and expeditious entrance of the extractor. The barbed part of the implement having been forced into the cork the proper distance, so that a proper number of the barbs or spurs will be embedded therein, the operator now gives a quarter-turn to the handle, and thereby turns the barbed blade in the cork, whereby the abrupt shouldered parts of the barbs are made to firmly engage with the cork: and the cork itself is loosened in the mouth of the bottle. It only remains for the operator to pull the implement and the cork upward, so as to extract the cork from the bottle. I

Although I have described in detail and at some length the operation of, inserting the implement andextracting the cork, it is to be understood that this operation may be performed very easily and quickly.

Havingthus described my invention, what I claim as new is A cork-extractor comprising a flattened and pointed blade provided with spurs or barbs In witness whereof I have hereunto set my on its opposite side edges and in alternate or hand in the presence of two witnesses. staggered relation, each barb having a relativelyabrnpt top face and a sloping and cross- GEORGE OANIS ON FERGUSON sectionally beveled under face, and a suitable I \Vitnesses: handle secured to the blade, substantially as WILFRED BURDEN,

described. ALBERT COLBY SMITH. 

